I dunno if yall do serious shit in here but
We hadn’t had the death conversation with my four year old yet and my aunt took it upon herself to have it without our knowledge or consent, spontaneously, without any forethought or consideration. He flipped out after and later that night started screaming in a panic “we’re all gonna die.” We’ve had to do some major damage control and not only make a game plan for how we want to frame it but also unwind the shit she did. We’re on the other side of it now and we’re good, just wanted to share a couple things that helped immensely.
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get the book Lifetimes on Amazon. Super wholesome, comforting, but also straight up honest explanation of what it is
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I had a conversation with ChatGPT where I asked about quantum mechanics, quantum physics, simulation theory, basically the nature of reality as the leading minds in these theories understand it today, drilled down from that and asked, ok, if we take these things as truth, what does this mean for the nature of death and what could potentially happen to our consciousness after death. Then asked it to condense this down to a digestible form that a four year old could understand. Wild ride and super interesting read for grown ass adults but also super helpful for my kid.
Sharing in case some of yall with younger kids might get some benefit from it. The link is weird so scroll to the top and start there
https://chatgpt.com/share/681191ba-3680-8011-9114-c95a21c2dcbc
And the book on Amazon
https://a.co/d/4CFbD8c